#Master of Maxims

[quotelr]

The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.

Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims

[wild-saber1337]

TRANSFORMERS 40TH ANNIVERSARY!!!!!

Thank you transformers for 40 years of amazing shows,games, movies and more!!! Thank you for making want to fight for freedom that is the right of all sentient life!!! And thank you for filling my childhood with amazing memories of robots in disguise!!!

[churino]

Design for master yoketron

Yoke as in like, the yolk of an egg, see?

Yoketron is a terran, native of japan. He was a leftover maximal protoform, awakened somewhere after anatomically modern humans emerged . He grew used to living in our scale of time, so he's grown wise and responsible, even though chronologically he's younger than even bumblebee

Learning them as they were made, yoketron is a master of martial arts, attempting to find more of his kind he forms the cyber ninja clan, made to oppose the misterious six clan as they to hold a sinister purpose, Keeping all other terrans away from human eyes.

Initially, the cyber ninjas didn't know what to make of the autobots and watched them from a distance, but their compassion got the better of them as they encountered the autobot prowl undergoing a severe personal crisis, knowing yoketron was the only one fit to help.

[bobbole]

Behemoth - art by Maxim Kozlov

[sineva]

VASILISA KAGANOVSKAIA and MAXIM NEKRASOV - 'Master and Margarita' x

[jimclassicstoycollection]

Transformers

R.E.D.

Optimus Primal

by Hasbro (2021)

I don't exactly remember when I got this guy, but it was sometime back in 2021. I guess it doesn't really matter anyway.

This is Optimus Primal. We've seen him before, but THIS version is part of the now defunct (or I presume it is by now) R.E.D. toyline or 'Robot Enhanced Design' line Just a fancy way of Hasbro trying to merge the concepts of Action Masters and Star Wars' Black Series figures.

I've covered a few of them at this point, and I never bought that many, aside from the obligatory Optimus Prime, Megatron, and a few others; I thought mostly the line was a bit of a let down.

But I would say Optimus Primal is (mostly) an exception.

Bot mode:

I suppose it would be pointless to talk about the beast mode, considering he doesn't have one.

Anyway, Optimus Primal is in his Season 1 robot mode, and I gotta say, THIS is fantastic!

The sculpting of the fur is so good; some of the best in my opinion.

The Optimus head sculpt might be one of the best Primal head sculpts I've ever seen too (though I do think the blue of his helmet and the gray of his mask are bit too dark).

The range of motion on this figure is good. The toy is capable of a lot of different poses which is great for photography.

For some reason, the chest panel and the backpack are removable, and I'm not really sure why. There is some sculpting under the chest panel, so I suppose this could be a form of battle damage...OR maybe since some of the other R.E.D figures have similar removable pieces, perhaps they can swapped around to different figures...

Accessories:

Optimus Primal comes with few accessories; a pair of closed fists and his two swords.

Starting with the swords. They're fine. I think they look really nice, they feel solid, and look accurate to the shows design.

On the downside, however, is not with the swords, but with Optimus' gripping hands.

The plastic of the gripping hands is very thick and not very maleable. I had to exert some strength in order to wedge those sword handles into the hands. It's not fun.

Swapping out the grip hands for the closed fists is very simple. And once you got those dukes on, Optimus Primal is ready to box.

They look fine, but I wish Optimus came with another pair of hands, with open palms or something.

Final Thoughts:

R.E.D. Optimus Primal might be one of the best this line had to offer (in spite of its flaws) in its brief existence.

The sculpting is good, the level of articulation is good, the accessories...are lacking. But at the end of the day, it's just fun. Maybe not $20 worth of fun, but fun nonetheless.

I do have to say that I think 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime scales in well with RED Optimus Primal

[driver270]

Another photo I took a few weeks back that I haven't shared for some reason. I feel that Dinobot, an honour-bound warrior, would fit right at home in the Horizon universe (particularly with the Tenakth).

[antirepurp]

local freak thinks the amy gameplay in sa1 is perfectly fine and highly enjoyable and she should have more stages actually

[nicollekidman]

elevenclara is like sorry i know we’re both cute or whatever but i’m too busy trying to solve you and you cannot exist beyond your capacity to be For Me and we will never see each other. and then twelveclara is like. oh somewhere along the way you became more me than i am but you’ve also pulled me back towards you and the extremities of our personalities as they merge and refuse to be separate will be. WORRISOME. yeehaw!!!

[faggot-friday]

guys im kinda pumped i have a plan for getting into uni AND a plan for moving closer to campus this is going to be great hashtag independence

[bilbo-babe]

"The sea is always right!" (Sail Master / Antonio Te Maioha)

[mikomikomadness]

Guys is it just me or does it seem like that Master Bachio is either the son of god or IS god himself

[hermoodymaximalismhome]

[churino]

Sorry deluxe instecticon fans

I promised the astro squad was gonna get their proper entries

Here's barrage

[ryuki-blogs]

What's the average age for finishing college and finishing university where you're from then? :O

If you go to uni directly after high school (for the record, I didn't) and follow the most "traditional" system (aka you don't extend, interrupt, become a parent etc.) at most unis it takes three years to get a bachelor's degree and two more years on top of that to get master's. So in the best case scenario you can get a bachelor's degree at 23 and master's at 25.

If you want to continue to PhD, that depends on the university I believe - for example, my friend does PhD in biology and it's 4 more years on top of master's - she'll be finishing the course next year when she's almost 30.

We truly spend our entire twenties at uni over here :'D

I've heard of skipping high school and that's also completely bonkers! :O I mean, there are exceptions here but you usually have to be some kind of child genius/prodigy if they let you skip just like... a grade :'D But at the same time, we don't have middle school, we have primary school where you go for 9 years (grades 1 - 9, ages 6 - 15) and then you go to high (also called secondary) school (grades 1 - 4, ages 15 - 19).

The only comparison I can draw from is when we had an exchange student from the US for a year. She was freshly 16 and was put in our class of 18 year olds because we both were in "the third year of high school", except in different systems. I believe she also skipped a grade at home, so she was way younger than the rest of us and we were very protective of her because of that :'D

But when it comes to getting a degree, it must be said that if you go to a state funded university, all your first degrees are free. So if you don't change your course (we don't have majors, we apply directly for an exact faculty from the beginning - e.g. you apply for biology, you do entrance exams from biology related subjects, study biology and cannot switch to IT halfway through. If you want to switch your "major" you have to terminate your current course, re-apply for IT and go through the entire entrance exam process again), then you can get all your degrees for free. If you switch, however, then you pay for the new course after a while but compared to the US pricing, it's nothing. People are definitely not getting loans to study. Which is also another thing absolutely incomprehensible to us, getting education shouldn't put one into a life-long debt. It's insane.

But yeah. Hope this makes at least a bit of sense!

[schumi-nadal]

Matteo Berrettini - Monte Carlo Masters